appointee

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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has been opposed to the rule since it was instituted in 2005, when he was a commissioner who voted against it alongside a fellow Republican appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

McConnell, an appointee of Democratic president Barack Obama, said it was not his role to rule on "the wisdom of the government's policy choices" but to determine whether they "comport with the law."

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

These cases have gone before a three-judge district court made up of Judges Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer, both Trump appointees, along with Judge Stanley Marcus, an appointee first of Ronald Reagan, then Bill Clinton.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

She also served as a Democratic appointee in the Dept. of Education during the Obama administration.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

“But there has never been a publication like this in the history of the country,” Judge Murray Gurfein, a recent Nixon appointee, pointed out.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin